Colubris Networks Inc., Waltham, MA/Montreal, Canada
Colubris Networks is a leading global provider of wireless LAN (WLAN) access solutions to enterprise and service provider customers. The award winning products from Colubris deliver seamless, secure access to broadband services and applications while integrating into existing network infrastructure, security and management systems. Colubris is the market share leader in the hospitality and aerospace segments and has equipment deployed by more than 1,500 organizations worldwide.

Investment Date: January 2004 Sold to Hewlett-Packard, October 2008
GrandBanks Board Representative: Charles R. Lax
Co-investors: Business Development Bank of Canada, Prism VentureWorks, Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds, DCM-Doll Capital Management, Technology Development Fund

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Coradiant Inc., San Diego, CA/Waltham, MA/Montreal, Canada
Coradiant offers performance management appliances that transparently monitor web traffic to provide real-time insight on an end user's experience. Coradiant's customers include enterprise customers, software ASPs and e-commerce companies with revenue generating, financial transaction-based, mission critical web initiatives.

Investment Date: January 2001
GrandBanks Board Representative: Charles R. Lax
Co-investors: DCM-Doll Capital Management, Desjardins Venture Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, Mesirow Financial, Fonds de solidarité FTQ

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SilverRail Technologies
SilverRail Technologies provides technology solutions for the distribution of train tickets and other rail-related products.

Investment Date: August 2009
GrandBanks Board Representative: Charles Lax
Co-investors: Brook Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, PAR Capital Management

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Vivox Inc., Framingham, MA
Originally known as LibreTel, Vivox was founded by industry veteran Jeff Pulver and spun out of pulvermedia. Vivox provides online games, virtual worlds and other online communities with robust, integrated communication services that deliver superior quality voice, video, Instant Messaging (IM) and presence - all of which greatly improve gameplay and social interaction. Today, Vivox is bringing voice to over one million subscribers in more than 180 countries.

Investment Date: August 2005
GrandBanks Board Representative: Ryan Moore
Co-investors: Canaan Partners, Benchmark Capital

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xkoto Inc., Boston, MA / Toronto, ON
xkoto's technology platform enables the replication and virtualization of data. The GRIDSCALE Database Load Balancer manages a geographic grid of standard, commercial databases, making them appear virtually as a single local database so that applications become continuously available and horizontally scalable. Recently named one of Deloitte's 2007 Companies-to-Watch, xkoto's technology partners include IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Sybase.

Investment Date: September 2007 Sold to Teradata Corporation, May 2010
GrandBanks Board Representative: Tim Wright
Co-investors: GrowthWorks Canadian Fund

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